honesty box

noun

1. a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them

Example Sentences

According to the Financial Times newspaper, the Brexit minister will push for an "honesty box" approach, allowing companies to declare their goods are only destined for sale and use in Northern Ireland to exempt them from checks on the Irish Sea border.

From BBC

Fiona Smith of Westerton Farmers in south Aberdeenshire said they used to sell home grown vegetables from a "small shed with an honesty box".

From BBC

"Some of the public thought we could just put plants outside the gate with an honesty box but when you look at the sheer scale of the plants produced in the UK and sold through garden centres, that was never going to happen," he says.

From BBC

Last year more than £2,000 was donated by people having their picture taken with the scene and donating to an honesty box.

From BBC

As well as cafes and kro – the closest thing Danes have to pubs – every second street has an honesty box selling salad leaves, potatoes or honey, and for everything else, there’s a Co-op grocery.

From The Guardian